Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

A Suryapet court sentenced 32-year-old Bharathi to death for killing her infant daughter in 2021 as a “human sacrifice” to overcome sarpa dosham. Already jailed for attacking her husband later, ...

Two men remain missing since Friday, one in NSW and the other in Victoria, as the search to recover their bodies has so far failed.